I also found it melodramatic. Melodrama can be awesome but it needs to want to be melodrama and really work it. I didn’t feel that here.

I do think it’s very hard to make a work of art about one kind of art in the form of another- a book about movies, a video game about books, a painting about music. But yeah I just wanted so much more than this one ended up having for me.

There’s a good list here. If you can/want to go north of Boston, Manchester Music Mill is good as are a few local places in Portland, ME.

The Brookline Spa has a good one.

Sure, but there are limits. Few markets are truly free, and whether by regulation or human social norms, limits can have benefits without asking any vendors to suffer. As the article explains, reasonable people with expertise see this as price-fixing. Just because the data is anonymized doesn’t mean it isn’t being shared between competitors.

The other issue is that housing is not a widget. It has particular social and public health facets that impact us all. This algorithm is encouraging landlords to rent fewer units overall at a higher rate, leaving some empty in the interest of more money overall. That doesn’t seem like a choice that is necessarily in a society’s interest to encourage or allow at scale or without limit.